‘More cautionary tale than a prediction’ Into the slack, lazy matinee crowd explodes a bull in the Royal Court’s china shop. Thrashing, pointed, and poignant Al Smith’s searing play takes no prisoners, written in the language of power. Having visited the play’s setting myself (the Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia) in my wild and slightly cringe-fueled gap year, my teenaged ...
‘Caryl Churchill’s quartet of plays simmer along, slightly disconnected, only loosely joined by the themes of violence, magic and dark humour (delicious). Unusually, the plays warm up considerably as the premiere progresses’ Starting rather emotionally frozen, Glass is the story of a young girl made entirely of glass, and the comic and tragic reality of her doomed love. Maybe in comparison ...